Women in music
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
Women in music describes the role of women as composers, songwriters, instrumental performers, singers, conductors, music scholars, music educators, music critics/music journalists and in other musical professions. As well, it describes music movements (e.g., women's music, which is music written and performed by women for women), events and genres related to women, women's issues and feminism. In the 2010s, while women constitute a significant proportion of popular music and classical music singers, and a significant proportion of songwriters (many of them being singer-songwriters), there are few women record producers, rock critics and rock instrumentalists. Notable women artists in pop, such as Bjork and Lady Gaga have commented about sexism and gender discrimination in the music industry.
See also
- Lists of women in music
- Women in classical music
- Unsung: A History of Women in American Music
- Women in art
- Women in dance
- Women in film
- Women Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities Oral History Archive
